The Bitterness of the Rain

By: Danni Lynn

Chapter 12:Her Sin

~+!Diva's Pov!+~

I watched as her dress swished behind her in an elegant trance, she seemed to move so horribly slow. She spoke with a tongue that lashed out like fire but her words had held no threat; no malice.

I sat there groveling in the ground, crying out all that I had. Wishing desperately to grasp what I knew I had lost. To take back all those wasted dreams and fantasies for that they hurt so much. My own delusional hopes had caused me to teeter off the edge and reach out into the nothingness of air.

My own sister, had turned her back against me and lied to me. For all those years, I could have known the truth and learned to cope with it, and yet it was coming on too fast. I was falling at such a speed, I couldn't clutch a handle to keep me from the inevitable.

My heart was torn and tattered, bleeding, bleeding. Never ending bleeding. My dreams and hopes were dashed. My memories lairs. The worst, my twin sister, a traitor. It was all her fault. She killed what was most precious to me by destroying them in their own agony. A fate far crueler than death.

I had trusted her. We were family and, she threw that all away for the sake...of what? From what I had just been told, I didn't know my own sister. I hadn't known her for all of our lives. Where have I been all these years? How could I have not seen the truth for what it was?

Through my tears and the smoggy glaze of water, I caught my sister glance back at me with her eyes blazing crimson just before she disappeared down the hall. In a instant, I hated her even more. Her face hadn't been victorious or gloating, in fact it looked just as broken as my soul.

She didn't even take pride in her own success. She had succeed in obliterating our bonds as sisters, and tormenting our daughters that it had cost them their lives. No, she had regretted it. That cruel bitch.

She knew what she had done, and regretted it. She took her own actions and kept them as her own, taking all the consequences on her own being. She wasn't happy. She appeared to be in far more in pain, than I was. That had to be a joke, right? How does one commit such a sin and then repent for it?

There should be no kind of atonement on such a level of degree of treason. It was like as if she had done it as a kind of sacrifice. She did it on purpose for the sake of something else. How could she take our daughters lives for something else? What could be so important?

Soon enough my sobs ceased and my body stopped quivering in a tremor though the tears just kept coming. Nathan was rubbing my back in a comforting motion, his reattached arm wound around me, pulling me close to him. I cried into his chest, his body the only protection I had to keep me from the world.

Time was stretched and it felt like hours before I pushed Nathan away and wiped off my remaining tears. As Nathan offered his hand to help me stand, I noticed Solomon who was still glued to the same spot he was in before Saya left.

I took in a deep breath as I leaned against Nathan, just enjoying the feeling of his heart. We stood there like statues caught in an embrace as we watched Solomon's frozen features, waiting for him to respond. No such progress was made.

I brushed away Nathan's arms and walked over to Solomon, who stared right past me at the door way, the same door the red queen had previously walked out of. "Solomon?" I whispered as I waved a hand in front of his face, standing on my tip-toes to achieve of being in his line of vision. No flicker of recognition was made. "Hey, come on. Wake up." I voiced a little louder, his pale blue eyes vacantly watched the hallway. His face was held in a frozen horror, as if he finally saw a true monster that he could never forget. In fact, Nathan and I thought the same.

"You need to move, come on. Go do something, it'll help." I commanded him, this time I got his attention, but as those cerulean hues settled on me, I felt a chill run up the base of my spine. There wasn't anger like I had, there was just vast emptiness, like he couldn't believe that what he saw was true. " That's the thing," He began, his voice cracking with emotion, his chest heaved with a ragged gasp of air. "What thing?" I asked him, confused by what he meant.

Suddenly he grabbed my body and violently shook me, Nathan was tense ready to attack if need be, Solomon stopped and hung his head low, as his tears dripped down onto the floor. Eventually he was no longer able to support his weight and he fell to his knees, his body slumped down to the ground with no effort. "She doesn't need me. I'm unwanted! What am I now without anything to protect, to be loved, to love?" He yelled as he placed his hands over his head and rocked back and forth, muttering. The great Solomon has finally fallen in all of his great glory.

I bent down, about to touch his shoulder with my hand but another reached out and grasped mine, preventing any contact with the disgruntled chevalier. I looked up and locked eyes with my own sworn protector, Nathan. He sadly shook his head. "No, you wouldn't understand. This is something I must talk to him about. You can do nothing to help. I can, though." Nathan's voice was stern and I would had slapped him if the situation had any less value of importance.

I nodded and took a step back, leaving the chevaliers to do their own thing. I walked out of the room, irritated that I could do nothing to help my sister's chevalier. My sister. I stopped walking and stared at the ground with a wave of hot new anger washed over me, some tears escaped and rolled down my face. I angrily wiped them away, I glared straight ahead. I was going to give Saya a piece of my mind.

I charged down the hallway and slammed open her bedroom door. I caught her lying figure under a bed of blankets but in an instant they were fluttering to the ground, the bang echoed out around the empty room as I was completely thrown backwards onto the floor with a dark figure leaning over me with something cold and hard pressed to the middle of my throat. I gulped in fear, as the hair on the back of my neck rose, feeling instantly threatened. Red eyes stared at me from the darkness, filled with nothing but hate and fear, the same thing I was feeling.

Then they blinked and the red disappeared. The figure got up and walked away to the corner of the room. A sudden white flash caused me to force my eyes close as I was momentarily blinded, after a couple of seconds had passed, I opened my eyes and stared at the startled Saya. Her breathing was ragged, her chest heaved up and down in the effort of trying to calm her racing heart. She stared at me confused, with fear still evident in her eyes. Her knuckles were white as they gripped the knife that she clutched to her side.

"God, Diva. You scared the hell out of me." She groaned as she threw the knife away, where it embedded itself inside the wall with only the hilt showing, she ran a hand across her eyes. I noticed the wetness of her cheeks. Had she been crying? I shook my head, I hated her. I forced myself to feel no sympathy to the monster that had killed our own flesh and blood.

Her eyes softened as she took a step forward, her arms open in a sign of wanting to comfort. I took a step back. She stopped and let her arms drop to her sides. "Oh." She whispered as she gave me a faint smile. I glared at her with every feeling of rage I could muster, it was quite easy to blame her for everything. "How could you do that?" I hissed as I bared my fangs at her, she threw her head back and laughed at me. Laughed at me. I waited as she calmed down and waved a hand in front of herself.

"Diva, you said it yourself, I'm a monster." Her eyes glowed a dull crimson as she coolly walked over to her bed where she picked up the fallen sheets. I caught sight of clothes folded neatly on top of the dresser, I stared at them. She caught me looking and glanced over at the clothes. "I finished some laundry." She murmured as she crawled onto the bed and laid down, inviting me to join her. I chose to stand.

"How can you act so normally, when you just did the worst thing you could have ever done?" I growled with malice. She blinked a couple of times as she tried to understand what I was saying. "Easy," She said as she pulled the sheets up to her shoulder. I cocked my head to the side, confused. "Easy how?" I asked her, like an innocent puppy. Arms wrapped around me and pulled me close as lips brushed my ear, Saya no longer laying in the bed. "I don't forget. I just remember, everything." Her voice low was filled with unimaginable agony but she was gone before I could hug her in return. I stopped myself from calling out her name.

She reappeared in front of me, simply watching my every movement. "You should leave." She told me as I was hoisted into the air and carried out of her bedroom. As she set me down, I smacked her across the face. She stared at me stunned. "Why did you do that!" I yelled as I kept her from moving, by gripping her forearm. She wrenched it away with enough strength that it sent me staggering backwards, she slammed the door shut.

I stood there. I didn't understand a thing. I just wanted my daughters back.

~+!Solomon's Pov!+~

My heart it burns, so much as if there was a fire that had been nothing more than a spark that had kindled and grew. It was eating me away to the point I was in complete agony. My body was so heavy, I just wanted to disappear.

How could it be that the one thing I thought I had had was no longer meant to be?

"Solomon." The voice was lost to me, as I felt my body crumple beneath me. I just couldn't support myself anymore. I had fallen in love with the devil that was in form of an angle. "Devil. She's a devil." I muttered through my fingers as I covered my face with my hands, as an useless effort to stop that tears that flowed so easily down. I had believed in her, and she had betrayed me.

"Why is she a devil, Solomon?" The voice beckoned to me, offering comfort and light, but I knew there was little to be done. I was crumbling too fast to catch the falling pieces. "Because, she broke our promise. Our promise." I repeated as my body convulsed in wrenching jabs as fear was etched in my very being. I was afraid of the monster that had stolen my heart.

"A promise?" Suddenly I was ripped away from the world and I was falling, spinning down a long dark tunnel that twisted in any way possible. I landed. Hard.

The sun sunk lower and lower into the sky, as it lit up the frozen terrain that stretched as far as the empty forest and vast mountains. With the freezing temperatures, it was rare for humans to be out in the extremity, so the snow lay fallen fresh as blue and crisp as spring's newly bloomed flowers.

Yet, blood still stained the purity red. Such a shame, but sacrifices must always be made. She turned to me, her face pale but her eyes blazing as bright as the sunset. At first she stared at me as nothing more than a stranger with only emotionless solitude and evident anger pulsing in her irises, but it disappeared as soon as it came and her eyes were instantly filled with pain and false happiness, yet deep kindness was still there. It was just lodged under all those tormenting memories.

Her fingers twitched as they lost grip of the corpse and it fell quietly to the ground, the snow bracing it from impact. Her white wolf fur was stained and ripped, but she made no effort in fixing the unconventional problem. Her long black hair flowed behind her as the wind brushed away her bangs, revealing the sorrow encrypted face. Her frown was a simple slight point of the lips in a downward turn.

I looked away, ashamed to be the cause of the mess. Previously, Saya had complained that there hadn't been enough food in the past months and that she was starving, so I had escaped into the night and went to the closest village. There I made an uproar that was big enough to have a mob chasing after me, so I led them to where the queens and my brothers were resting in the cabin on the side of the woods. There we took the mob and ravaged them apart, enjoying the feast but obviously Saya thought differently.

I caught sight of Diva on her knees leaning over a teenaged boy that looked at me with pleading eyes as he held his out for me, trying to reach for me. Hoping to be save of his terrible fate. Diva took her lengthen, jagged nails and ripped his fur coat apart, leaving his chest bare. There she ran a nail across his flesh so hard he bled. She licked him clean. She repeated the process, teasing the boy of the simple, luxury of death, prolonging the inevitable.

The sad thing was,

I didn't care.

The other chevaliers were having their own fun with the stray prey I had led home for dinner. I was smeared in blood and I had just finished gorging myself greedily on a young girl as I disemboweled her, blood gushing at rapid speed, spewing alarmingly out of her torn abdomen, as I ripped away her organs. I clenched her heart in my fist and felt the thick blood ooze out as it began to freeze, as it dripped slowly on the innocent snow.

"Solomon, look at me." Her order had always been my command, so I turned and stared at her, silently wishing away all that sorrow. "What?" I asked, my voice trembled slightly with emotion and I mentally cursed myself. "Can you keep a promise?" I nodded, instantly disliking where this was heading.

I glanced sideways at the feeding Diva, and sighed heavily, "Yes." Saya nodded her head, and gave me a small smile. "I need you to promise me that you can forgive me." Her request was strange and though I took it to heart, I didn't really understand it. I hesitated, unsure on how to answer, but I closed my eyes and let my lips speak for themselves. "I can always forgive you."

A sudden shaking broke me away from my memories that were so vivid it felt like that I was in there, at that moment, living during that time. I choked on air and the tears stopped coming. My racing heart calmed and I stopped shaking. As I gained back my composure, I then became aware of the concerned chevalier that was calling my name, hoping to get my attention.

I blinked as the world around me came into focus and my bleeding heart stanched. Though there was no blood involved it didn't mean that I didn't feel the pain. It hurt to know that she had kept all this away from me, from her family. We were all close, so why did she do that? Didn't she know that the longer she got around to telling us, the much more painful it would be?

She made me make a promise to her on a snowy day, years long ago that have since passed with not just decades but with generations. Now, I am no longer sure I can full fill her wish. It was a heavy wish, that might not get granted. How can I forgive a lying master? Or monster that is.

"Hey, Solomon...Are you there?" Nathan's voice rung in my ears as if he had yelled them and I flinched at the sound. I turned to look at him with empty eyes, he gave me a sad smile as he offered his hand for me. I took it and I stood with a sense of weightlessness. "Are you going to be okay?" He muttered to me in a low voice, I paused, pondering on how to answer.

I heavily shook my head feeling as if my body might just collapse underneath me again. "I don't think I will ever be, Nathan. It's just so hard, knowing with what...she had done. I feel so...unneeded." I felt new tears sting my eyes but I held them down with a strength that I grabbed from my inner being. I was stoic, and strong, the prince that every girl wished to have and every guy that wished to be, and yet, here I was crying my eyes out.

Nathan nodded understandingly, his eyes filled with a pain that was of not this time, his eyes flickered back and forth as if he was reliving memories I could never share. It was his secret, as I had my own as well. "You always have Diva to protect when you can't have Saya. Solomon, we're your family. Use us when you need to." His gaze switched to me and our eyes met. His comment surprised me, that he was right.

Even though, I felt I could no longer be by Saya's side for that I did not believe in her, I could always remain by her sister's side. Protecting the one thing that she had held so close but had hurt the most. She had risked her life, her freedom for her sister, time and time again. To say that she did not love Diva would be a lie, but to say that Diva was what she was always protecting was a questionable reason. Did she do things for just her own gain or was it all for her sister?

They were two opposites attracted to one another. Saya was the calm and collected sister, while Diva was the emotional basket case. No matter how much they fought they were dearly close, even a blind fool could see that, but what Saya had just revealed today, went beyond forgiveness.

She not only killed her daughters but her sister's also. She tortured them and listened to the one man that have been following us for the last century. Sometimes I wonder if she just let herself get caught on purpose.

I ran a hand through my hair and sighed in frustration, Nathan raised an eyebrow questioningly, but I just shook my head and left the room. Nathan following pursuit. As we headed out into the hallway, there was a sudden shout coming from the bedrooms, with a loud bang that echoed. Nathan and I shared a glance of alarm before we disappeared to the human eye and reappeared by Diva's side in front of Saya's bedroom door.

"What's the problem, Diva?" Nathan asked as he stood beside her, she spun around in surprise, but it was quickly gone as she stomped her foot and whined. "Nathan, I want them back!" She screamed as she pointed frantically at the door that read 'Saya'. Nathan cocked his head to the side, confused by her command. "Want what back?" His reply only served more to her frustration as she twirled in a circle before she kicked the door and stormed off with hot tears streaming down her face. "I want them back, Saya! Give them back to me!" She shrieked as she shoved pictures off from the walls and upturned tables along the way she went. Her blue dress getting torn as it snagged on the things that she broke on her mental meltdown.

Nathan ran after her, I mumbled something unintelligent before I took a step forward and knocked on the door. No answer was heard but the occasional sound of wood splintering and the wall echoing with the noise of the crashes. Cries were muffled as bangs rung out deafeningly out from the room. I knocked again, my patience wearing thin. I didn't want to be near her, but my duty as chevalier always came first before one's wants besides the queen's wishes.

"Go away!" The yell was loud enough to have my vision swimming with a spinning motion before I got a hold of myself and banged on the door. "Open the fuck up!" I growled threateningly, just wanting to rip the door of its hinges and charge into the room just to ruff her up some. Suddenly, there was silence followed by the soft sound of someone crying. I frowned, this wasn't what I expected to happen. I shook my head, I didn't need empathy, I just needed, wanted, hate.

"Saya, open up the damn door or I'll break it down for you!" I shouted, I could feel a vein in my forehead throb in anger as my blood boiled in rage. I had the sudden urge to wrap my hands around her throat and slowly-. I stopped and glanced down at my hands. They were clean. Fear began to settle in at the pit of my stomach. What was happening to me? I never felt so angry in my entire life, had never felt so compelled to feed the urge of wanting to stain the white walls red and soak the ground in a sea of crimson. To watch the horror of someone who thought they were so safe come crashing back to reality as their final moments. Fools.

My long nails were sharp enough to cut through wood but a simple kick would make it all the more easier. I was induced by the chemical functions of my brain to protect Saya for she is my queen, but I still had freewill to do as I pleased, so what I did was, kick down the door and come crashing in. I was ready to unleash all of my fury. Saya had hurt my family, and she would pay. Traitors always paid the price of their crime, and her's was a big sentence. Of course, she could never atone to her sins for they were to great. She had the option to protect but instead she knelt to the ground groveling in her own pain and went about filling orders of her master, Anshel. Our, my, enemy.

The sight that I saw, belittled me to a scale of no comparison, my rage and hurt were of insignificance. The walls were battered with holes and dents as items lied strewn across the carpet either shattered or broken into pieces that were too small to fix. Strangely, there was no one in the room but the door to the bathroom was off its hinges and was split in two in the middle of the floor, seemingly ripped apart by a force that even a chevalier would have difficulty attaining.

Then there it was once again, a roar; a scream of pure madness as if insanity itself was a matter of complete unimportance as this roar caused me to pause and let my hearing to recover. The world appeared to shake under the influence of the power of the being, I felt the urge to get on my knees and beg. I went into the bathroom, seeing if I would find the red queen in there. What stood before was not what I knew, not what I could ever imagine.

What stood before me was broken, angry, a cowering beast that would cut down everything in its path. Her tiny body trembled with the force as the mirror laid shattered at her feet, blood dripped from wounds that no longer marred her skin. Her back was turned to me as her body rippled with hidden strength, her fists clenched with a piece of something white crumbled in her clutch. Its white soon being stained red. Her long black hair was tangled around her body, cloaking her in a weak attempt for warmth.

"Saya?" My voice cracked with unrestrained emotion as I felt my inner anger weaken and disappear under the power that emitted from this imitating figure. She turned halfway and glanced at me over her shoulder, I shuddered with fear. Emptiness greeted me as her crimson hues settled in my direction, her lips twitched in a amused smirk. Her eyes all devoid of emotion, as if all the happiness, all the anger and regret had been sucked away. "Solomon." Her tone, low and flat as if it were nails grating against metal. I cringed, unsure on how to approach this untouchable monster.

I was angry.

Diva was angry.

Nathan was angry.

Saya was enraged.

We all held the same bottled up emotions but Saya...she always dealt with it differently, putting it aside for another day, another time. Avoiding the pain and all of its consequences. She wasn't running anymore, she was taking it with its full force and now all that remained was a vacant shell.

Suddenly the sound of pounding feet came echoing from the hallway as a loud and more than pissed off Diva came dashing into the room, she stopped when she saw my petrified face. My heart was racing at a speed I could no longer determine, adrenaline flowed through my veins as I felt compelled to rebel from this empowering beast...no...god, and run as far away as I could.

Diva's face became stern as she walked past me and stood in front of her sister. "Give them back to me, Saya. I want them back." She repeated the same words she had cried out no more than ten minutes ago. Saya gave a look of disregard but as Diva's tone became more pleading, cold amusement spread across her face. "Oh, I shall, but not in the way you would understand. No like you ever understood anyway, sister." She spoke with venom as the lingering effect of threat was laced in her voice.

Diva's back stiffened as her neck grew red with anger. "Take it back! Take it back, and give me them!" She shouted as her body shook with the force, Nathan stood beside me, lost and horrified as I was. Who were these people? I thought I had knew them so well. Obviously, I had been lied to more than a million times. Saya hung her head and a brief spark of sadness flickered in those empty depths, but it quickly disappeared as ice froze all the remains. "I wish to hunt," She paused as the air stirred with a soft, yet strong force as Saya no longer stood before us. Or near us in anyway at all. "Alone." The imposing whisper hinted at frightening things but none as scary as what left the blue queen.

She screamed as her fists were waved angrily in the air, she screamed till her voice was cracked, she screamed till our ears were pounding with the ring, she screamed till the pain felt too suffocating. She collapsed onto her knees, wallowing in her own sorrow. Our family was broken but now it was shattered to unamended pieces. I wanted the happiness back, the peace. Our laughter and joy.

Today was filled with too much sorrow, too much reality, too much pain.

That by the time I noticed the note that laid at our feet in the circle of shattered glass, we would already be too late to stop the turning tides of war.

Hours had already passed as I felt my body regain its feeling and once more I was able to move freely. Nathan and Diva had retired to her bed where they would mend their miseries together and cling onto whatever they had left.

I walked over and picked up the discarded note and as I read it, dread filled my body and not much longer was I standing in the ruins of Saya's life, but I was running like hell towards Diva. To tell her something that might be the best news of her life. Yet, I wouldn't realize the price of that cost till much, much later.

It was true, the shit had hit the fan. And hard.

~+!Saya's Pov!+~

My withered heart had by pasted the point of returning to it's shattered ruins. At first it had been flaking with the emotional imbalance of my heavy burden, but when I saw all those torn faces and pain scrawled hearts. I knew at that point that my sin was no longer a colossal hit to the soul but a monumental shift of bonds being broken. It just obliterated my heart to nothing.

All that was left was rage.

Always. Never ending. Rage.

I just wanted to feel the fear of others and their pain to ease my own suffering, but I knew that I would not stand to take the challenge, not when I clung so desperately to those humane emotions. My heart may hurt. My soul may bleed. My body may die, time and time again, but I shall not stand to have what I have always held dear feel the pain that I have known. Such insufferable, agonizing, misery should not be condemned to one person who's life will live as long as time shall extend forward. Or to anyone at all.

My family was no longer concerned of my well being, not when I had betrayed them in such a brutal way. So, I left something behind that I would lift their spirits but I knew that it would only damage them farther if they were to ever truly discover the truth behind the intention of telling them.

I was finally free to do as I wished without the weight of having someone to protect me and their life be placed on the line to be a fleeting thought of concern. So what I did was run and run and run. Guess what I did?

I RAN! (Oh ho ho...marry days..)

I didn't have the luxury to go anywhere at a fast rate, seeing as I was poor as shit but I had the strength and endurance of a true queen to back me up. I didn't have any clue on where to go or where to find what I wanted to kill. I had nothing. Zip. Nadda. Zilch.

I realized that blood would be shed and hatred would reign the lands.

As all that went unknown become of up most importance.

The battle of chiropterans had began.

As had a war.

Ok? wht do u think...the story is coming along...review...plz...

-danni